Update 9/28

Sep 28, 2020 at 04:41 pm by Staff


Metro Nashville

As of 9:30 today, the city reported 28,846 confirmed cases, an increase of 431 since Friday (and 193 over the last 24 hours). There are currently 1,129 active cases in Nashville (up 219 since Friday), 27,444 inactive or recovered cases (up 207 since Friday), and 109 active hospitalizations (up 6 since Friday). With 273 deaths (up 5 since Friday), the city has a case fatality rate of 0.95%. In Davidson County, 381,925 tests have been administered with a positive rate of 7.6%.

On the trend lines, Nashville is back to 5 out of 8 in the green with the remaining metrics in the yellow. With a goal for transmission to be less than 1.0, the city's current transmission rate is 0.96. The 14-day case rate remains in the green with a decreasing trend in new cases. Public health and testing capacity remain in the green, as they have throughout.

As of 9:30 am this morning, hospital floor bed capacity remained in the yellow with 18% availability, and ICU beds also remained yellow with 14% capacity. The goal for both hospital and ICU bed capacity is 20%.

The New Cases per 100K Residents remains in the yellow this week. The goal of the seven-day rolling average is to be at 10 or below. Currently, Nashville sits at 14.8 on this metric (up from 13.36 on Friday). The goal for the 7-Day Positivity Rate is to see a figure at 10% or less. Currently, Nashville remains in the green with a rate of 3.6% as of 9:30 this morning (down slightly from 4% on Friday).

More detailed data is available on the Metro Dashboard. Click here for details.

Nashville's mask mandate continues alongside loosened restrictions for gatherings and increased capacity numbers in restaurants and bars.


Tennessee State

This afternoon, the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) confirmed 737 new cases of COVID-19 today with the state total hitting 193,732 (up 4,278 since Friday). There are currently 710 hospitalizations (down 18 from yesterday) and 2,389 deaths (up 12 in 24 hours) for a death rate of 1.23. More than 2.8 million tests have been administered statewide (up 14,735 since yesterday). The number of inactive/recovered cases statewide is 176,030.

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